Mattress attachment.



No. 892,334. PATENTED JUNE 30, 1908. 0. [111mm & I. 0WEN. MATTRESS ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 6,1907.

3 1 ATTQBNE rs )HARLES Uilll'lllN AND IRA OWEN,

ATENT OFFICE,

OF SPOKANE, WASHINGTON.

MATTRESS ATTACHMENT.

To all whom it may cmurern:

Be it known that we, (lim'mins UnoEN and IRA Owns-both citizens ol' the United States,

and residcnts of Spokane, -in the county of in connection with a mattress body.

An object of the invention is to provide a simple, strong and inexpensive attachment or bolster adapted to be secured reinovably to a mattress and serving as a protector for the feet, and for holdin the covers ofa bed i p in position at the foot thereof.

further object of the invention. is to pro vidc a device of the class described having a removable bolster adapted. to serve as a toot protector, or as a bolster for the head.

The invention. consists in the construction and combination of parts to be more fully described hereinafter and particularly set forth in the claims.

' Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and in which Figure 1 shows a side elevation of a mattress having our invention implied thereto and showing the same in a dii'lerent position in dotted outline Fig. 2 is a perspective View of a bed showing a mattress thereupon with cold air, while at the same time serving firmly to hold the covers in position at thefoot of the mattress. 'lllie invention is also adapted to be used as aliolster and for the purposes for which a twister usualiy chi-- ployed, for instance, as a h-cad :mpport or a support for the plllOWS when the lHtl not in use. flirt-bolster is removebly secured to the mattress at an end then-inf and if so do.- sired twobolsters may be employ-"ed, one

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed August 6, 1907. Serial No. 387,315.

Patented Tune 30, 1908.

mounted at each end of the mattress. The connection between the bolster and the mat tress is flexible and the points of attachment of the mattress and the bolster are between adjacent edges of each. As appears most clearly in Fig. 1, the-operative position of the bolster is at substantially right-angles with the mattress body, one side of the bolster resting upon the upper surface of the mattress near one end of the same. In this p ssition the mattress protects the feet of the occupant of bed and holds the covers, the ends of which are inserted between the mattress and the bolster, securely in osition. If so desired, the bolster may be to ded back uponv the mattress in a position substantially parallcl with the length thereof. in the latter position the bolster may be used as a head rest or for the purposes indicated by the generic term bolster. It will be understood that the bolster may be used as a head protector in exactly the same manner as it can be usedfor protecting the feet of the occu ant of the bed.

eferring more particularly to the drawings, 1 represents a mattress body, which.

may be of any suitable form. Vi e prefer to use our invention with a mattress of the usual construction, consisting of an envelop 2 of suitable material such as mattress cloth,

and stuffed with a suitable material 3 suehas hair, felt shavings and the like. We provide a bolster 4 preferably of similar construction,

having an envelo of clothor other suitable material and stu 'ed with a cushion material 161 which may be of any preferred or common ind.

The bolster 5 at one of the ion itudinal sides has a flap 7 which is preferab y of the same material as the envelop 5 and-extends laterally from the bolster at a point inter-v mediate of the two adj acent side ed es. We prefer to form the flap integral wit the en-' velop oi the bolster, the flap comprising a double thickness of the fabric forming the flap has a plurality of clasp sr-ections 8 adapt ed to C(FtLU-t with suitable clasp sections 9 car-- ried by tlie'mati-rcss, renmvahly to. see-ore the holster and the mattres clasp set'tinns ll manta-i s and on a litre su. .stant-ially or tl'al Wll'll respect to said l( While we prefer to employ clasps as do *ibed it will be 1111-- The flap is-flexiblcand is secured s together. The i m numi'll ed a" an end of the mediate of the upper and lower surfaces of arran ed between the end of the mattress and tiie foot of the bed so that the surface of the bed. will appear level.

Having, thus described our invention we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:-

In combination, a mattress, a bolster having a flexible fla extending from end to end of a side thereo' and arranged intermediate the edges of the side, and means for removabl securing said flap to a mattress at an enrfi thereof and intermediate the edges of the end, said flap permitting said bolster to be arranged upon either face of said mattress and at an angle therewith, to form a foot or head protector and to hold bed clothes in position.

Intestimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES, UHDEN.,

the mattress many other suitable manner, for instance, by pinning, sewing, by means of hooks and eyes, buttons, and the like. When the bolster is in use as a foot protector the lower ends of the bed covers 10 are inserted between the end of the mattress and the bolster as is shown most clearly in Fig. 3. The bolster when in the operative position. indicated in Fig. 3 holds the covers securely in. position while at the same time proteetin r the feet of the occupant of the bed from cold air and drafts. If the bolster is used as a head protector the covers are not inserted between the head of the mattress and the bolster, the bolster merely acting as a shield in this case. As the flexible connection between the bolster and the mattress is interderstood that the bolster may be secured to the same the bolster can be 0 eratively p0- sitioned at both the upper and ower surfaces IRA OWEN. of the mattress; that is, the mattress can be Witnesses: reversed without interferenceby the bolster. B. C. YANcEY,

When the bed is not in use the bolster can be E. P. RANDALL. 

